About Byung Ho Choi

Byung Ho Choi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and Ecumenics, with a concentration in World Christianity and history of religions at Princeton Theological Seminary. His research focuses on the indigenous expressions of Christianity found in Southeast Asia, particularly as found in the Muslim-dominant archipelagic nation of Indonesia. More broadly, his interests include the history of Christianity, issues of conversion and social identity, inter-religious (Christian–Muslim) dialogue, ecumenism, interculturality, anthropology of Christianity, and World Christianity.

Byung Ho Choi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and Ecumenics, with a concentration in World Christianity and history of religions at Princeton Theological Seminary.

NBN Episodes hosted by Byung:

Jonathan A. Seitz, "Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)

June 3, 2024

Protestant Missionaries in China

Jonathan A. Seitz
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

With a focus on Robert Morrison, Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology (U Notre Dame Press, 2024) evaluates the role of…

Briana L. Wong, "Cambodian Evangelicalism: Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)

November 15, 2023

Cambodian Evangelicalism

Briana L. Wong
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

The Cambodian Civil War and genocide of the late 1960s and ’70s left the country and its diaspora with long-lasting trauma that continues to reverbera…

Gina A. Zurlo, "Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023)

October 16, 2023

Women in World Christianity

Gina A. Zurlo
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
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Gina A. Zurlo's book Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023) is the first textbook to focus on …

Michèle Miller Sigg, "Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France" (Baylor UP, 2022)

August 5, 2023

Birthing Revival

Michèle Miller Sigg
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

The nineteenth century witnessed a flurry of evangelical and missionary activity in Europe and North America. This was an era of renewed piety and int…

Chris Suh, "The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion" (Oxford UP, 2023)

June 3, 2023

The Allure of Empire

Chris Suh
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
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The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford UP, 2023) traces how American ideas a…

Chandra Mallampalli, "South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim" (Oxford UP, 2023)

May 1, 2023

South Asia's Christians

Chandra Mallampalli
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims. But the region is also home to substantial Christian communities, some da…

Kyama M. Mugambi, "A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya" (Baylor UP, 2020)

March 5, 2023

A Spirit of Revitalization

Kyama M. Mugambi
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, Africa has generated unique expressions of Christianity that have, in their rapid development, overtaken…

Jason Bruner, "How to Study Global Christianity: A Short Guide for Students" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

February 28, 2023

How to Study Global Christianity

Jason Bruner
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

Jason Bruner's How to Study Global Christianity: A Short Guide for Students (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) provides students with an accessible–yet critic…

Mitri Raheb, "The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire" (Baylor UP, 2021)

January 29, 2023

The Politics of Persecution

Mitri Raheb
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

Persecution of Christians in the Middle East has been a recurring theme since the middle of the nineteenth century. The topic has experienced a resurg…

Emma Wild-Wood, "The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes C. 1865-1935" (James Currey, 2020)

December 25, 2022

The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya

Emma Wild-Wood
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes c.1865-1935 (James Currey, 2020) is a vivid portrayal of Kiv…

Gina Zurlo, "Global Christianity: A Guide to the World's Largest Religion from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe" (Zondervan Academic, 2022)

October 14, 2022

Global Christianity

Gina Zurlo
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

Christianity is now a majority-global South religion, with more believers living in Africa, Asia, and Latin America than in Europe and North America. …

Helen Jin Kim, "Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)

July 5, 2022

Race for Revival

Helen Jin Kim
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

In 1973, Billy Graham, "America's Pastor," held his largest ever "crusade." But he was not, as one might expect, in the American heartland, but in Sou…

James Elisha Taneti, "Telugu Christians: A History" (Fortress Press, 2022)

June 20, 2022

Telugu Christians

James Elisha Taneti
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

Telugu Christians: A History (Fortress Press, 2022) narrates the history of Telugu Christians, a faith community located in the states of Telangana, A…

João B. Chaves, "The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South: Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Shaping of Latin American Evangelicalism" (Mercer UP, 2022)

April 28, 2022

The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South

João B. Chaves
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

João B. Chaves analyzes the first hundred years of Southern Baptist missionary activity in Brazil to reveal how the racialized practices of Southern B…

Aminta Arrington, "Songs of the Lisu Hills: Practicing Christianity in Southwest China" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2020)

February 28, 2022

Songs of the Lisu Hills

Aminta Arrington
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

The story of how the Lisu of southwest China were evangelized one hundred years ago by the China Inland Mission is a familiar one in mission circles. …

Afe Adogame, "Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

February 11, 2022

Indigeneity in African Religions

Afe Adogame
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Afe Adogame, Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and …

Retief Muller, "The Scots Afrikaners: Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures in Southern and Central Africa" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

December 10, 2021

The Scots Afrikaners

Retief Muller
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

Drawing primarily on Dutch and Afrikaans archival sources including the Dutch Reformed Church Archive and private collections, Retief Muller's The Sco…

Tim Hartman, "Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity" (Langham Publishing, 2022)

December 8, 2021

Kwame Bediako

Tim Hartman
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

Kwame Bediako was one of the great African theologians of his generation. Challenging the assumption that Christianity is a Western religion, he prese…

Alexander Chow and Emma Wild-Wood, "Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity: Historical Studies in Honour of Brian Stanley" (Brill, 2020)

November 15, 2021

Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity

Alexander Chow and Emma Wild-Wood
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

‘Ecumenism’ and ‘independency’ suggest two distinct impulses in the history of Christianity: the desire for unity, co-operation, connectivity, and sha…

Dyron B. Daughrity, "Worldly Christian: The Life and Times of Stephen Neill" (Lutterworth Press, 2022)

October 29, 2021

Worldly Christian

Dyron B. Daughrity
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

Bishop Stephen Neill was one of the most prolific, accomplished, and fascinating Christian leaders of the global church in the twentieth century. Priv…

David C. Kirkpatrick, "A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

September 8, 2021

A Gospel for the Poor

David C. Kirkpatrick
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

In 1974, the International Congress on World Evangelization met in Lausanne, Switzerland. Gathering together nearly 2,500 Protestant evangelical leade…

Devaka Premawardhana, "Faith in Flux: Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

August 30, 2021

Faith in Flux

Devaka Premawardhana
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

Anthropologist Devaka Premawardhana arrived in Africa to study the so-called explosion of Pentecostalism, the spread of which has indeed been massive.…

Paul Michael Hedges, "Understanding Religion: Theories and Methods for Studying Religiously Diverse Societies" (U California Press, 2021)

August 19, 2021

Understanding Religion

Paul Michael Hedges
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

This innovative coursebook introduces students to interdisciplinary theoretical tools for understanding contemporary religiously diverse societies--bo…

Daryl R. Ireland, "John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man" (Baylor UP, 2020)

August 2, 2021

John Song

Daryl R. Ireland
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

Dubbed the "Billy Sunday of China" for the staggering number of people he led to Christ, John Song has captured the imagination of generations of read…